AFAIK at this point it's pretty clear that nothing special happens to the cat while it's in the box, simply because it's on waaaaaaaaaaay too large a scale for the whole thing to be in a superposition.

to properly hold a superposition like that you have to do nutty shit like cool the environment to within fractions of a degree of 0K and measure the spin of individual protons or whatever

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  • if valve maanges to not only normalize linux gaming but also make usable linux phones, that might actually make up for them inventing lootboxes and leaving TF2 to languish.

    one day i will afford all their devices, put them in a single room filled with copper pipes, and call it my steampunk shrine. After that of course comes the surgical installation of a red valve on the back of my head.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 6 hours ago

    this is what every day is like for me with autism: if i don't eat whatever the fuck my brain considers the "correct" food that day, then everything will just be gray and miserable until i at least eat something crunchy so i can reach a baseline level of functionality.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 hours ago*

    The best settings are where everyone is morbidly fascinated by each other.

    Humans are effectively viewed as stereotypical frenchmen, constantly smoking and drinking and eating violently stinky food.
    Dwarves think asbestos has a wonderful crunchy texture that goes great with a tall glass of mercury.
    Elves cannot comprehend why you wouldn't simply drink raw magic like a civilized person (you gotta try some Yith'Illian merlinot, they age it for two hundred years in silverwood caskets which gives it a gorgeous silky texture).
    Orcs consider most human food to be ultraprocessed slop for babies, but have become borderline addicted to our hard candy and have formed a deep friendship with dwarves over sharing bones to gnaw on.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 hours ago

    we have a lot of little superpowers, but i'd say the big one is the thing we're doing right now. We would never have made any of this technology if we didn't communicate and work together absurdly well.

    Hell it applies to other animals too: being both intelligent and social unlocks the ability for not only your entire species but potentially even all the intelligent species to collaborate.

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